▲ Yesterday, Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez received the leader of the Palestinian National Authority at La Moncloa Palace.Afp Photo
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The newspaper La Jornada
Friday, September 20, 2024, p. 22
Jerusalem. Israeli police have arrested an Israeli citizen recruited by Iranian intelligence services to plan the assassinations of senior Israeli government officials, including Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, local security sources announced yesterday.
An Israeli citizen was recruited by Iranian intelligence to promote assassinations of Israeli figures. He was smuggled into Iran twice and received payment for carrying out the missions.said a joint statement.
Netanyahu, Defense Minister Yoav Gallant and Ronen Bar, the head of the Shin Bet (Israel’s internal intelligence and general security service), as well as other senior officials, were among the attackers’ targets.
Local media identified the alleged attacker as Mordechai Maman, born in 1952 and originally from Ashkelon, and reported that he was arrested on August 29.
Mom, a businessman who lived in Türkiye for a long periodmaintained links with Turkish and Iranian individuals who put him in contact, by telephone, with an Iranian identified as Eddiepolice said.
According to the same source, during his stay in Iran he was asked to carry out missions in Israel, such as transferring money or a gun and threaten other Israelis recruited by Iran to plan assassinations.
During a second trip to Iran following the assassination by Israel of Ismail Haniyeh, leader of the Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas in Tehran on July 31, the detainee was allegedly offered to assassinate senior Israeli officials, according to authorities.
Two states
Meanwhile, on his first official visit to Spain, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas yesterday requested, in front of Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez, to hold a second peace summit in Madrid between Israel and Palestine, during the public appearance of both leaders at the La Moncloa Palace.
During the private meeting, Sanchez said: It would be an honor to host of the talks and added that he will do everything possible to ensure that it can take place in the Spanish capital, indicated sources from La Moncloa present at the meeting.
Sanchez reiterated his support for the two-state solution to reach a peace agreement in the Middle East, and affirmed that Spain recognized Palestine Because it is fair, because it exists and has every right to have its own State, which lives in a neighborhood with the State of Israel in peace and security..
Finally, a United Nations committee accused Israel of serious violations of a global treaty protecting children’s rights, saying its military deployment in Gaza had a disastrous impact on them, putting Gazan children in one of the worst catastrophes of recent history.
The Committee on the Rights of the Child, made up of 18 independent experts, condemned the Israeli attacks against civilian targets in the Gaza Strip, which have left more than 16,700 children dead and at least 6,100 injured.
At least one million children have been displaced, 21,000 are missing, 20,000 have lost one or both parents, and nearly 17,000 are alone or separated from their families.
The report denounces the use of explosive weapons with far-reaching effects in densely populated areas and the denial of humanitarian access, which has led to dozens of child deaths due to malnutrition and 3,500 children at risk of death due to lack of food.